Oil Companies Relinquish Last Pacific Coast Drilling Permits to Canada
Canada announces that oil companies have surrendered the last of the outstanding permits for exploration off the Pacific coast.
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Canada announces that oil companies have surrendered the last of the outstanding permits for exploration off the Pacific coast.
Canada announces that oil companies have surrendered the last of the outstanding permits for exploration off the Pacific coast.
Chevron Canada has relinquished the last of 227 oil and gas exploration permits that once blanketed B.C.’s coast to the federal government.
There won’t be any oil and gas drilling rigs off British Columbia’s coast — at least not in the near future.
Canada has secured the surrender of the last remaining permits for oil and gas development off its Pacific Coast, the federal natural resources minister said on Wednesday, after Chevron Canada voluntarily relinquished 23 permits this month. Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said the relinquishment of the permits marked an important milestone in permanently protecting the ecologically rich waters of Canada's west coast. While there has been a federal moratorium on oil and gas exploration off the Pacific coast since 1972, permits issued before that date were still v...